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Richard Powers


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Richard Powers is the author of  The Echo Maker  which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985)
   Prisoner's Dilemma (1988)
   The Gold Bug Variations (1991)
   Operation Wandering Soul (1993)
   Galatea 2.2 (1995)
   Gain (1998)
   Plowing the Dark (2000)
   The Time of Our Singing (2002)
   The Echo Maker (2006)
   Generosity (2009)
   Orfeo (2014)
   The Overstory (2018)
   Bewilderment (2021)
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Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1993) : Operation Wandering Soul
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (2006) : The Echo Maker
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2007) : The Echo Maker
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2011) : Generosity
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2014) : Orfeo
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2018) : The Overstory
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2019) : The Overstory
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2021) : Bewilderment




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